Going to start in the us. Protests over the war in gaza have come to a head, with angry and sometimes violent scenes at campuses on both the east and west coasts. Take a look at these pictures. These are clashes at the university of california, los angeles campus. This was the early hours of wednesday morning, just a a few moments ago. A pro palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. There have been clashes between the two sides. These pictures are not live but we have been watching these pictures over the last couple of hours as they have been fed into us here at the bbc. Violence escalated around 11pm here at the bbc. Violence escalated around pm local time. It is now a around pm local time. It is now a a few hours after that. These are some of the most recent pictures we have. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about what has happened on campus. From 10. 50 this
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These are the pictures right now. The Vice Chancellor of the University Says there have been horrific acts of violence, adding the police have been called in. Fireworks were reportedly thrown at one of the camps and pepper spray has been used as barriers surrounding the south were torn down. A Pro Palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about developments on campus. From 10. 50 this evening, Counter Protesters turned up as they have been doing for the last couple of days to disrupt the encampment. We know as well they fired off fireworks towards the encampment and there has been tear gas used on site. One of our reporters got tear gassed this evening as well. So that is what is currently going on there. We know that campus has requested a Police Presence from across the city to come in and from the latest ive just heard, they ar